Core Cloud Architecture
The building blocks every cloud system is made of — regions and networking, compute and storage, databases, caching, messaging, reliability, identity, security, observability, and delivery — with concrete AWS, GCP, and Azure comparisons throughout. The technical grounding behind Cloud and AI Architecture: Case Studies.
Lessons
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Regions, Availability Zones, and Edge Locations
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Cloud Networking Fundamentals
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Choosing How Your Code Runs: Compute Options
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Autoscaling and Elasticity
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Storage Fundamentals: Object, Block, and File
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Databases: Relational and NoSQL
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Caching
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Messaging and Event-Driven Architecture
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Reliability in Distributed Systems
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Identity and Access Management
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Security Fundamentals in the Cloud
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Observability: Logs, Metrics, and Traces
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Infrastructure as Code and Delivery